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TIL Britons eat 97% of the world’s baked beans

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Z8LOp TIL that Costa Rica, Chile and Uruguay are all more democratic than America, Japan and the Netherlands.
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8VrX TIL the U.S. Flag Code says that when a flag is worn out, it should be burned
epmpE TIL the jigsaw puzzle was commercialized around 1760 by John Spilsbury. His design took world maps, and cut out the individual nations in order for them to be reassembled by students as a geographical teaching aid.
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